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Turtle's Back Good Vs Evil

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´The World on the Turtle’s Back’’ explains the birth of good vs evil, and the balance it creates. As history passes by, it seems that the fight between good vs evil is an endless fight in which the only thing that wants to be proved is which side has more power. ‘’The
World on the Turtle’s Back’’ takes readers back in time to the very beginning of Earth’s formation as well as the formation of what seems an eternal-lasting fight between good and evil. This idea of constant figh between good and evil is represented by two twins.
The right twin is represented as the good one, the one who always told the truth while on the other hand, the left twin is represented as evil, the one who always lied.
Even though the story describes the right-handed …show more content…

Many can say the left-handed twin had a good part inside him since the text says the left-handed twin ‘’made medicines, for good and evil, for doctoring and witchcraft’’. On the other hand, many can argue that the right-handed twin was not a hundred percent good, since he killed his grandmother only because she was always at the side of the left-handed twin.
Good and evil make a balance in the world. If there is good, there should be evil and if there is evil, there should be good. The text says ‘’The world the twins made was a balanced and orderly world, and this was good’’. In the text, the right-handed twin made pacific animals like the deer,

the squirrel, the porcupine, which were all hervbivores. The left-handed twin made dangerous animals to kill the animals his brother made such as mountain lions, weasels, and the bear, all of these are carnivorous. Both twins had creativity in all of their makings, while one searched for life as it says ’’the right-handed twin made berries and fruits of other kinds for his creatures to live on’’ the other searched for death and suffering ‘’The left-handed twin made briars and poison ivy, and the poisonous plants like the baneberry and the dogberry, and the suicide

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